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StoryCorps 532: Lost Time
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“I could always hear Matt’s tractor coming down the road.”
3:55
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StoryCorps 531: Legacies of Love
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“Mother’s Day of ‘88 I did my very first race.”
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A Day When Her Story Matters Most of All
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StoryCorps 530: Too Blue for the Morning News
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Thanks, Mom

Conversations from everyday mothers and the incredible things they do

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“If you had walked away and left me there, nobody would have looked askance.”
2:45

“If you had walked away and left me there, nobody would have looked askance.”
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“When I took you home, I didn’t know how to feel.”
2:36

“When I took you home, I didn’t know how to feel.”
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"It was hard not to be mom."
2:02

"It was hard not to be mom."
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"What was it like to be pregnant with me in jail?"
2:38

"What was it like to be pregnant with me in jail?"

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Lessons Learned
3:09
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The Human Voice

Teachers

Stories from great educators and the lives they've changed

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"He said, 'You make sure you call that teacher.'"
1:51

"He said, 'You make sure you call that teacher.'"

Neurosurgeon Lee Buono remembers reconnecting with his eighth grade science teacher, Al Siedlecki, after more than fifteen years.
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"I didn't think I would ever tell a teacher..."
2:47

"I didn't think I would ever tell a teacher..."

Aaron remembers when he first shared with his teacher, Celeste-Davis Carr, that he was homeless.
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"If just one of them gets through, they may save us all."
2:52

"If just one of them gets through, they may save us all."

John Hunter talks about a game he invented to help his 4th grade students solve world crises — with remarkably successful results.
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Making It

Making It

Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda tells his former teacher, Alex Fernandez, about his clever money-making endeavors as a kid in Chicago's Little Village.